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7 now.
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Now we need more members making threads! 
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Back down to 9 again
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Is it possible to introduce a distinction between "no replies" and "unanswered"? What I mean is, I made a thread the other day, and for reasons of clarity made a 2nd post, which now means my thread no longer shows up in "unanswered threads" despite in no way actually being answered. It seems "clear" to me that, even if a thread has "replies", if they're all the OP, it's still part of the "question asking". (In my case I was still within the Edit timeframe, so I could have appended Post #2 to it, but let's not forget that the Edit window is, for its own reasons, tightly restricted.)
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It sort of is possible in the homework forums. Sometimes an advisor will mark it as solved. But inside that list it is not possible at the moment.aphirst said:
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Back down to 9 again.
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Down to 4! We need some thread starters! 
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Is this because of Spring Break you reckon ?Greg Bernhardt said:Down to 4! We need some thread starters!
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I don't know, it's been a pretty slow semester from the start.phinds said:
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Down to 3. Two of them are very specialized questions, and for the particle physics one I'm not sure if the question has a good answer.
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Too late, someone started a new thread.
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Jumped up to 41!
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Charles Link said:
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and back to single digits again (8). I haven't really paid attention in past years but I assume it will stay relatively low during the summer.
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I replied to it, but I am too late. There are already a couple more.Ygggdrasil said:
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We are now at zero. I just answered the latest unanswered thread.Charles Link said:
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We are now at zero=probably not for long. :)Ygggdrasil said:
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Nothing after February 2018 due to Greg's bot.
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We did it!Charles Link said:
(alternatively, we have just proven that question answerers have nothing better to do on a Friday evening than answer questions while question askers probably have much better things to be doing)
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7:15 P.M. (Central Standard Time) and we're back to zero for at least the second time today.
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We need new threads :)
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I have disabled the auto bump feature. Keep an eye on this list
https://www.physicsforums.com/unanswered/threads
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You mean the PF Help Bot?Greg Bernhardt said:
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Seems that the bot had been enabled once again. I see a thread where the bot has posted a message today:
https://www.physicsforums.com/threa...in-this-regular-language.965381/#post-6129047
https://www.physicsforums.com/threa...in-this-regular-language.965381/#post-6129047